Saturday, September 19, 2009

I Want You To Piss Your Pants

This was originally ripped and posted by my friend Mike Desert over at his great Blog The Jerk spot, but it was too good to resist. "Last House On The Left" was 1972's most brutally ugly movie, it inspired a score of copycats (Last House At The End of The Street, The Night Train Murders, and even a douchey remake earlier this year.) Nothing can top the sheer grit and sleaziness of the original, certainly not some CGI and a new song by Mudvayne, but Hollywood can't leave well enough alone. In the legitimate LHOTL, actor David Hess is in his creepy, rapey best as Krug Stillo, a ruthless asshat hell bent on fucking up the rich people's party. On top of being the very essence of unchecked, oily sadism, David Hess also composed and sang many of the songs on the film's delicious score, even creepier. Thanks again, Mike.

18 comments:

Thanks William, I become a deseperate Dracula when I see all these small references like sadism, tv rap, brutal rock, fat people that develop the public of the scools of the suburbs, more enjoyable to destruct what they don't understand than to learn something outside the suicidal schema that their parents, their media and their scool show in their fucked up everyday lifeYou're great

Listening to this is reminding me again that what's so creepy brilliant and sadistic in the film is not so much the kind or explicitness of the violence but the bat-shit insane goofiness that permeates the whole thing: the redneck Keystone Cops, the Richard Lester-esque speed up kidnapping sequence, and above all, this soundtrack, from mediocre psychedelia and banjo twang to Fabio Frizzi sounding shifts between ambient spook and full-blown jazzy bar piano.

I can't wait to listen to this!!! I love this movie; it's so hideous and the juxtaposition of the music is hilarious. That terrible rape scene and the music lyrics are, "...sometimes you feel so alooooone..." or something like that - crazy funny. No way a remake is going to capture this goofy 70's combinations without seeming trite or seeming to try to hard to be stupid: silly songs/horrifying rape, blow job/horrid murder, suburban dad/chainsaw murderer. Thanks!

70s horror had a sadism to it that even a lot of the modern shocker stuff like Hostel doesn't quite match. Maybe its because its so amateurishly staged sometimes--like you're watching a grainy home movie where something's suddenly gone terribly wrong. Death is so stylistically presented in a lot of films, that people sometimes say when they see a real death, it looks "fake" to them. I dunno, i'm rambling and trying to be philosophical when i should be asleep.

Another totally cool flick (not at all like LHOTL, maybe more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers) called Messiah of Evil.

This is part 1, take it from there if you wanna see more.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj-md3XsDeY

Also, this one called Shockwaves, had some pretty creepy synth work too, which is pretty appropriate since the monsters are these creepy-looking Gary Numan clones.Ditto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIz8TxocwJ4&feature=related

Finally: Hausu. It used to be available on Youtube with subtitles and everything, but sadly can't find it anymore. It's indescribably amazing, a total acid trip of a horror flick. Still, here's a little taste:

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